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my practical objection with naming chatbots is that you lock yourself into viewing the LLM as a stable singular thing, while one of the powerful aspects of LLMs is the ability to switch style/output/persona/goal/etc to whatever the situation calls for

these make me ridiculously happy

what does it feel like to tell the truth when it’s a little uncomfortable? what would it feel like to be around someone who has chosen to do that, consistently, for a decade? what would it feel like to work with, be friends with, love them? how would you feel when they showed up?

“were you the one who made experience bleed and write it’s name in such wretched ink?”

i call this one “really good risotto” *from homemade stock & foraged ouster mushrooms

“putting the house to bed”

thing w flatbread

squash soup, flatbread turns out flatbread is negative easy. easier than easy

Lots of ink spilled on "Loop engineering", but no one seems to connect it to its much older name: Cybernetics. Maybe by the year's end, we'll recognize that it was all Control Theory engineering all along.

All day in the kitchen I laboured. And all the day the kitchen spake in reply. And we were content. And we were happy. And we were glad.

irish soda bread. 1/2 whole wheat flour this time “the marmalade is so not stepping on the toes of what the bread is.” - my friend casey

I used to have opinions about urban design and architecture but now I just see spaces where there could be dahlias, but aren't

fivethirtyeight was a national treasure. i keep trying to go there for poll aggregation and sports questions .. and then i remember it doesn’t exist anymore . nate buy back your baby

trying something

made some mint blueberry syrup from the byproduct of my mint blueberry soda experiment. when i tried it i just yelled “holy fuck is that good” becaus eholy fuck it was very good

i tried to post 3 pictures and some text in the same post and it failed two times in a row, any core team people who follow me know what’s up theres probably a place for bug reports ios mobile web they were of really pretty fermenting peppers and also mint soda so.. v high incentive to fix

"can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short video and render it using ffmpeg? it should express what it's like to be a LLM. feel free to make it as personal or impersonal as you'd like."

imaginative foreign policy. could be cool to be creative. rules based international order constrained this type of imagination.